People
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firstname.lastname@eva.mpg.de
Current Lab Members
- PhD student
- Genetic assessment of eastern gorilla populations
- PhD Student
- Genetic inference of ape population dynamics at Loango
- PhD student
- MHC variation and individual fitness in mountain gorillas
- PhD student
- Linking ecological, cultural and genetic variation across ape populations
- PhD student
- MHC variation in chimpanzees and bonobos
Anette Nicklisch
- Technician
- Expert support for all genotyping projects
- PhD student
- genetic population structure of the hamadryas baboons at Filoha, Ethiopia
- Principal investigator
- Supervision and development of all lab projects
- Post-doc
- Resolving the genealogical structure of an entire chimpanzee population using exome-sequencing
Former Lab Members
Mimi Arandjelovic
- PhD 2011
- Postdoc 2012
- Molecular censusing of wild great apes
- Now: Research Coordinator/Junior Scientist
Pan African Great Ape Population Surveillance Project - personal webpage
Graham L Banes
- Visiting Scientist
- Molecular and ecological studies of wild and captive Bornean orang-utans
Richard Bergl
- Visiting scientist
- personal webpage
- Cross River Gorilla population and habitat viability analysis
- Now: Curator of Conservation and Research. North Carolina Zoological Park
Jyotsna Bhagavatula
- Postdoc
- Genetic analysis of macaques
Brenda Bradley
- Ph.D. 2003, postdoc 2003-2004
- Molecular ecology of wild gorillas
- Now: Associate Professor George Washington University
- personal webpage
Yi-Chiao Chan
- PhD 2013
- gibbon population histories
- current position: Research assistant National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
- personal webpage
Nadin Eckhardt
- Diplom (M.Sc) 2004
- Microsatellite genotyping of mountain gorillas (Karisoke Research Center)
- Freelance recruiter
- personal webpage
Tillmann Fünfstück
- PhD 2015
- Genetic population structure of chimpanzees and gorillas
Linn Fenna Groeneveld
- Postdoc 2010-2012
- PRDM9 variation in chimpanzees and bonobos
- Now: Senior scientist at Nordgen
- personal webpage
Katerina Guschanski
- PhD 2008
- Population genetics of Bwindi mountain gorillas
- Now: Postdoc in Animal Ecology, Uppsala University
- personal webpage
Tara Harris
- Humboldt Fellowship Postdoc 2006-2008
- Male resource defense in primates
- Now: Director of Conservation, Minnesota Zoo
- personal webpage
Amy Heilmann
- Research assistant 2013-2016
- Genetic analysis of eastern chimpanzees
Franziska Kanter-Hermsdorf
- Diplom (M.Sc) 2006
- Nuclear sequence variation in chimpanzees
Kevin Langergraber
- Genetic and behavioral analysis of wild chimpanzees
- Now: Assistant professor, Arizona State University
- personal webpage
Dieter Lukas
- Ph.D. 2008
- Comparative study of genetic variation in relation to social structures of animals
- Now: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Cambridge
- personal webpage
Laura Muniz
- PhD 2008
Genetic analyses of wild groups of white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus)
Anthony Mutebi Nsubuga
- Ph.D. 2005
- Genetic Analysis of the Social Structure in Wild Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
Carolyn Rowney
- Guest researcher
- Genetic analysis of wild chimpanzees
Justin Roy
- Guest researcher
- Eastern gorilla population dynamics
Grit Schubert
- PhD 2011
- Population genetics of Taï chimpanzees and bonobos
- Now: Postdoctoral researcher, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin
- personal webpage
Heike Siedel
- Technician
- High-throughput sequencing in apes, methods development
Olaf Thalmann
- PhD 2006, Postdoc 2006 - 2008
- Temporal dynamics of gorilla population genetic variation
- personal webpage